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Several rows of colorful patterned pagnes

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The Impatient

By Djaïli Amadou Amal

“Love doesn’t exist before marriage, Ramla. It’s time you come back down to earth.”

Translated from French by Emma Ramadan

The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist: The Blunder, Carnality, Of Saints and Miracles,...

The Watchlist: July 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books from Cameroon, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and Kazakhstan.

An International Menagerie: Animal Stories

By Susan Harris

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

The Madman of Bonanjo

By Alain Mabanckou

You can hang a man from a tree, but you cannot hang History with him.

Translated from French by Helen Stevenson

Multilingual

The Avenging Whip

In my line of business, people don’t talk much.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

Fragile States: Artwork from freeDimensional

By freeDimensional

A visual exploration of the physical and psychological experiences of persecution and forced displacement.

Multimedia

from “Malamine”

By Christophe Ngalle Edimo & Simon-Pierre Mbumbo

From Malamine, un africain à Paris, by Christophe-Ngalle Edimo and Simon-Pierre Mbumbo. Published 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. Copyright 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. By arrangement with…

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

From “Love Will Wilt in Too Much Sun”

In short, I've lost my youth-just like that, in a single day.

Translated from French by C. Dickson

Barking

By Patrice Nganang

I perform without any rage when my master calls me, even if I always shuffle along a little while I do it.

Translated from French by Christine Schwartz Hartley